
Find You First
Linwood Barclay
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
HarperCollins / HQ
Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’. Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction, psychological thrillers and action/adventure stories.
Linwood Barclay
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
HarperCollins / HQ
Sharon Bolton
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Orion Publishing Group
Steve Cavanagh
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Orion Publishing Group
SA Cosby
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Headline Publishing Group, Headline
MW Craven
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Little, Brown / Constable
Laura Lippman
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
2022 | Shortlisted
Faber
TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER | IMPRINT |
---|---|---|---|
A Man Named Doll | Jonathan Ames | Pushkin Vertigo | |
Find You First | Linwood Barclay | HarperCollins | HQ |
Exit | Belinda Bauer | Transworld Publishers | Bantam Press |
The Pact | Sharon Bolton | Orion Publishing Group | |
The Devil’s Advocate | Steve Cavanagh | Orion Publishing Group | |
Sunset Swing | Ray Celestin | Pan Macmillan | Mantle |
Razorblade Tears | SA Cosby | Headline Publishing Group | |
Dead Ground | MW Craven | Little, Brown | Constable |
The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz | Faber | |
Dream Girl | Laura Lippman | Faber | |
Rizzio | Denise Mina | Birlinn | Polygon |
The Lonely Ones | Håkan Nesser | Pan Macmillan | Mantle |
Sponsored by Ian Fleming Publications.
An urgent, poignant and terrifying thriller. This page-turner will hold your attention until you get to the very last page.
Corinne Turner (Chair)
Corinne has managed and helped develop authors’ literary estates for around 30 years. She is Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd and also owns and manages the literary estate of children’s author, Willard Price.
Karen Blewett
Karen worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years, in a variety of senior financial and commercial roles for Dorling Kindersley and Little, Brown. While her day job involved numbers and systems, her first love has always been reading.
Thanhmai Bui-Van
Thanhmai has been a bookseller, book buyer and now works in sales at Titan Books. Crime fiction has been a constant in her book career and she says, ‘over the years it’s been a pleasure discovering new authors.’
Tom Fleming
Tom Fleming is the longstanding deputy editor of Literary Review. He also writes for The Spectator, The TLS and Apollo, among other publications.
Richard Heffer
Born in Cambridge into the family of HEFFERS BOOKSHOP.
Worked as a professional actor from 1968, in Theatre, Film, Radio and Television worldwide until 2005. A great fan of all periods of crime fiction, and keen to encourage new writing.
Ayo Onatade
Ayo Onatade is a CWA Red Herring Award winning freelance crime fiction critic, reviewer and blogger. She has an eclectic taste in crime fiction, which runs the gamut from historical crime fiction to hardboiled and short stories. A former Chair of the CWA Short Story Dagger and judge of the Ngaio Marsh Award.
Ian Fleming Publications – Sponsors of the Steel Dagger
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is the Fleming family-owned company that looks after the James Bond literary brand, by promoting and making available all of Ian Fleming’s 007 books across the world. They also keep the brand alive through the publication of new stories by authors such as Anthony Horowitz, William Boyd, Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks, Raymond Benson, John Gardner, Kingsley Amis, Steve Cole and Charlie Higson. Alongside James Bond publishing, the company also manages the rights for Fleming’s two non-fiction books and his only children’s book, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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